JHI How-to: Jumpstart Your Alt-ac Career – Apr. 17, 2024

Session Description

Graduate students, are you starting to think about your post-dissertation life? Are you curious about an alternative academic (or “alt-ac”) career? Wondering how you can mobilize your graduate degree into a range of fields? Do you need some guidance on how you could frame those experiences for hiring managers? 

Join the Jackman Humanities Institute for a workshop featuring a session on “translating” the academic CV into a professional resume and hear from a roundtable of panelists and hiring managers about their career paths and experiences, and what they look for in a job candidate. Topics include:

• Developing marketable skills during your RAships
• Translating your research skills for an outside market
• Creating a career narrative
• Best practices for reframing your academic CV into a resume
• What hiring managers look for when reading a resume and cover letter

Featured speakers: 

• Carla deMarco, Academic Communications & Outreach Manager, UTM 
• Sanja Obradovic, Director, Health SRC Strategy, Toronto Metropolitan University 
• Lisa Rumiel, Director of Research Services, Faculty of Arts & Science, UTSG 
• Danielle Taschereau Mamers, Managing Director, Critical Digital Humanities Initiative, UTM